This week, I launched my Read to Succeed Campaign which aims to raise enough money to buy a new reading book for every Year 4 child in North East Cambridgeshire. The initiative, supported by the Bishop of Ely, teachers, businesses and community groups, ensures that every Year 4 child in North East Cambridgeshire can have …
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As the route is split across Cambridgeshire and Norfolk County Boundaries, with both Councils paying for the service, where is this money going? Why did County Council Officers not fix the price for the April-August interim contract when the contract was drawn up? These are all questions that need answering, and I am awaiting responses …
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The Woodland Trust – a wonderful organisation in my view – have been in touch to offer a tree for the constituency to link our area with the Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy. This seems a great idea, but begs the question – where to put it? The tree will be delivered and planted at the end …
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I am pleased to support the local community and National Farmers’ Union in the ‘Back British Farming’ campaign day today. Farming is the backbone of the rural economy and supports a number of businesses across the constituency as well as making a huge contribution to North East Cambridgeshire. The Fens are home to over 4000 …
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For what feels like many months I have been driving past Domino’s in Wisbech with its boarded-up window and wondering why it hasn’t been fixed. I am sure I am not the only one to have been frustrated by this. So I have been in touch with Domino’s to make the point that this needs fixing and work is well overdue. I am …
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Wisbech Rock Festival once again proved to be a fantastic day out for everyone who visited, that was headlined by Dr Feelgood. The event which had music offerings for all taste was a resounding success. Congratulations to the organisers of the Rock Festival for such a successful day, and I am sure those attending will …
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The Elgood’s Brewery in Wisbech opened its doors on Sunday in support of the National Gardens Day Scheme. The brewery, which was established in 1795, contains four acres of stunning gardens, and mature specimen trees which are around 250 years old.
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‘How comforting to place the blame not on human error, but the mythical panoply of Fen Horrors that included the Dead Hands, Witches, Jack o’ Lanterns – spiteful little creatures with little twinkling lanterns on their backs – Crawling Horrors, and decaying willows called Snags that wound their branches around unwary night travellers and held …
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John Bridge, the Chairman of Opportunity Peterborough (until March this year), is a board member of the funding body – the Cambridgeshire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) – that made four separate grants to Opportunity Peterborough worth three quarters of a million pounds. So he is a member of the LEP Board which awarded four grants …
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A whistleblower has privately disclosed to me that a local funding body allocated £359,000 of Government funding for Fenland station improvements is blowing the lot on endless report writing, without any construction work being done with this funding. It is the equivalent of paying a £30,000 a year rail consultant for almost 12 years to …
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